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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India...
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English
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"The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties....
84) The Hopi child
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Series
Publisher
Appleton-Century Co., for the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of Virginia
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Series
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"This book reviews the field of Knowledge Management, taking a holistic approach that includes both "soft" and "hard" aspects. It provides a broad perspective on the field, rather than one based on a single viewpoints from Computer Science or Organizational Learning, offering a comprehensive and integrated conception of Knowledge Management. The chapters represent the best Knowledge Management articles published in the 21st century in Knowledge Management...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"How are firms, networks of firms, and production systems organized and how does this organization vary from place to place? What are the new geographies emerging from the need to create, access, and share knowledge, and sustain competitiveness? In what ways are local clusters and global exchange relations intertwined and co-constituted? What are the impacts of global changes in technology, demand, and competition on the organization of production,...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In an accessible and droll style, best-selling author Joel Best shines a light on how we navigate these anxious, insecure social times. While most of us still strive for the American Dream--to graduate from college, own a home, work toward early retirement--recent generations have been told that the next generation will not be able to achieve these goals, that things are getting--or are on the verge of getting--worse. In American Nightmares, Best...
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Publisher
Business Expert Press
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Language
English
Description
The premise of the author is that the study of money should commence at the most general level. Consequently, the book is anchored in the context of monetary systems (commodity, fiduciary, and fiat monies). The intent is to give the student of money a very broad perspective. It allows them to understand, for example, how the money we use today differs from money used in the past, or how our current money relates to money discovered by anthropologists...
91) Rearming Germany
Series
History of warfare volume 64
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
100) France
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, geography, government, economy, people, and culture of France.
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